Rooms are currently sold out, but feel free to call and put yourself on the wait list. In the meantime, this place is only about 1/4 mile away:http://www.bayview-motel.netYou'll be able to purchase meal tickets at the Terrace so that you can still eat with everyone else!

Suites (great for families!!)...keep in mind these are in a different wing from the rest of the rooms:(including 3 nights stay, dinners, continental breakfast, late night snack each day)1 person: $423 ($423 per person)2 people: $486 ($243 per person)3 people: $549 ($183 per person)4 people: $612 ($153 per person)As discussed earlier, if you plan on partying loud all night and shit, maybe let's reserve the suite wing for families and you can get a regular room in the main wing.

Call (906) 786-7554 to reserve a room, tell them you're with the PRF group in february!

GEAR:I'm cool with bringing most of my gear this time around. Our PA is good and loud, everything will be mic'd, so if you're not terrified of the idea of playing through a measly 2x12/1x15 cab, you're welcome to use this gear! (to be honest, the bands that have used smaller gear have historically sounded better in that room!) Looking for a drum kit for the main stage. Backup heads or cabs are welcome, and I'll most likely have room in the U-Haul to transport it for you!

NewDarkAge wrote:This is during school holiday, and Dad wants to go. Might well be logistically/financially impossible, though. We'll see.

!!!!!!!If you can find cheap airfare, the rest of it is very inexpensive- somewhere along the lines of $150 per person for the entire stay (3 nights) including meals! We can get you up to the U.P. in one of our cars if you can get to chicago.

NewDarkAge wrote:This is during school holiday, and Dad wants to go. Might well be logistically/financially impossible, though. We'll see.

!!!!!!!If you can find cheap airfare, the rest of it is very inexpensive- somewhere along the lines of $150 per person for the entire stay (3 nights) including meals! We can get you up to the U.P. in one of our cars if you can get to chicago.

Sounds good. I'll try really hard. We're set on Chicago, and 2 USA trips in one calendar year seems kind of crazy, but Dad was immediately interested when I mentioned this, so who knows?

El Protoolio wrote:It's like the summer BBQ but it's also like the Shining.

Brilliant.

bishopdante wrote:BTW was not suggesting that my particular area of interest is buttocks, but it is normal for people of all sexes and sexual persuasions to be into butts, is not weird.

NewDarkAge wrote:This is during school holiday, and Dad wants to go. Might well be logistically/financially impossible, though. We'll see.

!!!!!!!If you can find cheap airfare, the rest of it is very inexpensive- somewhere along the lines of $150 per person for the entire stay (3 nights) including meals! We can get you up to the U.P. in one of our cars if you can get to chicago.

Sounds good. I'll try really hard. We're set on Chicago, and 2 USA trips in one calendar year seems kind of crazy, but Dad was immediately interested when I mentioned this, so who knows?

El Protoolio wrote:It's like the summer BBQ but it's also like the Shining.

Brilliant.

It's like the summer BBQ, except freezing cold, extremely cheap, everyone gets completely wasted and draws penises on everything, the hot tub is full of crazed naked people at 6 am, and roaming packs of evil hillbilly children steal your Canadian Doritos. It's totally awesome.

Here's a thing we're gonna try this year- one of the nights, for the final time slot, we're gonna try rapid-fire cover sets. You'll put together a group and learn 10 minutes of cover material by a band of your choice. Much like The Hype's sets, you won't know the band order ahead of time- the MC will call you up when it's your turn.

To make this work, everyone MUST use the same exact backline. No amp/head switching, no cymbal/snare switching. Minimal drum adjusting. We'll have a distortion pedal at each amp. You can use your own guitars/basses. Other than that, it's just 'get up, plug in and go'. If you feel like you need to lay out an array of effects, or you need a very specific fuzz pedal or it won't work, then you're missing the point and this isn't the challenge for you. 5 minutes from the time one band stops playing to the time the next band starts. 8 or so mini sets in 2 hours.

EmpireStateTroopers wrote:Here's a thing we're gonna try this year- one of the nights, for the final time slot, we're gonna try rapid-fire cover sets. You'll put together a group and learn 10 minutes of cover material by a band of your choice. Much like The Hype's sets, you won't know the band order ahead of time- the MC will call you up when it's your turn.

To make this work, everyone MUST use the same exact backline. No amp/head switching, no cymbal/snare switching. Minimal drum adjusting. We'll have a distortion pedal at each amp. You can use your own guitars/basses. Other than that, it's just 'get up, plug in and go'. If you feel like you need to lay out an array of effects, or you need a very specific fuzz pedal or it won't work, then you're missing the point and this isn't the challenge for you. 5 minutes from the time one band stops playing to the time the next band starts. 8 or so mini sets in 2 hours.

DO IT!!!!

oh, this is fucking killer. HELL YES.

especially looking forward to the bands that are made up of folks from totally separate states, playing their cover together for like the first time...

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EmpireStateTroopers wrote:Here's a thing we're gonna try this year- one of the nights, for the final time slot, we're gonna try rapid-fire cover sets. You'll put together a group and learn 10 minutes of cover material by a band of your choice. Much like The Hype's sets, you won't know the band order ahead of time- the MC will call you up when it's your turn.

To make this work, everyone MUST use the same exact backline. No amp/head switching, no cymbal/snare switching. Minimal drum adjusting. We'll have a distortion pedal at each amp. You can use your own guitars/basses. Other than that, it's just 'get up, plug in and go'. If you feel like you need to lay out an array of effects, or you need a very specific fuzz pedal or it won't work, then you're missing the point and this isn't the challenge for you. 5 minutes from the time one band stops playing to the time the next band starts. 8 or so mini sets in 2 hours.

EmpireStateTroopers wrote:Here's a thing we're gonna try this year- one of the nights, for the final time slot, we're gonna try rapid-fire cover sets. You'll put together a group and learn 10 minutes of cover material by a band of your choice. Much like The Hype's sets, you won't know the band order ahead of time- the MC will call you up when it's your turn.

To make this work, everyone MUST use the same exact backline. No amp/head switching, no cymbal/snare switching. Minimal drum adjusting. We'll have a distortion pedal at each amp. You can use your own guitars/basses. Other than that, it's just 'get up, plug in and go'. If you feel like you need to lay out an array of effects, or you need a very specific fuzz pedal or it won't work, then you're missing the point and this isn't the challenge for you. 5 minutes from the time one band stops playing to the time the next band starts. 8 or so mini sets in 2 hours.